Vietnam relooks its foreign policy as China widens hegemonic sphere

Vietnamese tourists at the Thac Ban Gioc on the Vietnam-China border in Trung Khanh district. Vietnam is resisting falling under Chinese domination and remains in confrontation with Beijing over the South China Sea.

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THE leadership in Vietnam is worried as its diplomacy is facing two new challenges.

Former US president Barack Obama's pivot to Asia - which provided Hanoi with security against its powerful northern neighbour, China - has ended. And now the Philippines is performing its own pivot to